This is an excellent column by Catherine Rampell in the Washington Post. She writes:

“The hoax is the premise that President Trump’s administration has invented to rationalize such crimes against humanity: his narrative that America has been “ infest[ed]” with hordes of crime-committing, culture-diluting, job-stealing, tax-shirking, benefits-draining “aliens.”
No part of that description is remotely true. Yet the Trump administration seems to have successfully shifted the national dialogue away from “Do we have a border immigration problem?” to “What’s the right way to fix our border immigration problem?””

This article states “…there is evidence, in federal data and on the ground in places like Brownsville that the immigration crisis Mr. Trump has cited over the past week to justify the separation of families is actually no crisis at all.”

The president calls it an illegal immigration crisis. Texas ranchers living along the border in the Rio Grande Valley call it business as usual — as Jaime Portillo says, “igual,” the same as ever. https://t.co/EXwDzsTj09